Gold touched an over three-month peak on Tuesday even as investors in exchange-traded funds have shown positive interest in the yellow metal. Further, rising inflationary pressure and a weakened US dollar have added to the appeal of gold as a hedge option. The dollar was hovering close to lows of many months against European currencies, …
An Overview of the Purchases Made India’s central bank chose to purchase a number of sovereign papers amounting collectively to a value of INR 34,175 Crores between April 22 and May 4, 2021. These purchases were made in order to offset borrowing costs and bring them down. This was necessary since there a high probability …
Even as the pandemic struck India in 2020 and there was an economic slowdown, foreign direct investment into India was unabated. In the financial year 2020-21, the overall FDI inflows hit a new peak of $43.366 billion, beating the earlier record of $43.013 in the previous financial year. The data, released by the Reserve Bank …
Oil continued to hold gains on Wednesday and seemed to consolidate its seven-week high on hopes that two major markets- the US and Europe will kickstart steady consumption soon. The hope comes on the back of efforts of the two economies to reopen on a larger scale and bolster vaccination efforts. Steady reopening of major …
There is no respite for cryptocurrency holders in India. Unofficial estimates by three major cryptocurrency exchanges put the total number of crypto investors to anywhere between 60 lakhs to a crore with holdings crossing a whopping Rs 10,000 crore. Despite their strong and thriving presence, the Reserve Bank of India seems dead set on pulling …
Overview Government bond yields fell below the psychologically significant 6% mark on Wednesday, following the central bank’s announcement of a Rs 35,000-crores bond buyback programme as part of its new pandemic-relief package. Bond dealers, on the other hand, are wary of the rally’s long-term viability, considering the federal government’s and states’ massive borrowing programmes. Bonds …
India recorded more than four lakh new fresh Covid-19 cases on Wednesday and registered more than 900 deaths, its highest ever increase in cases. Even as the second wave spreads across the states, the stock markets in India have not crashed like the fall of March 2020. Although since mid-February this year, the Nifty 50 …
The scourge of the second wave of Covid-19 keeps buffering not only the everyday lives of millions of Indians but is also increasingly threatening the economic resilience of India’s export sector. Demand stemming from US & UK Compounding matters further for India Inc is that the second wave that has hit India at a time …
Economic activity has slumped in the wake of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Animal spirits that seemed to be on revival in the first three months of this year, once again, took a beating and are now nearly moribund. Revenues of not just listed large corporations but also hole-in-the-wall shops and mom-and-pop stores …
Overview In the first week of May, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) removed Rs. 5,936 crores from Indian stocks, citing concerns about the large second wave of the pandemic and its economic implications. According to depositories’ numbers, overseas investors withdrew a net sum of Rs. 5,936 crores from Indian stock markets between May 3 and 7, …
